How many times can you polish 1 vehicle?
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GoodnClean
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Exactly 6 times 
Kidding lol. Really it depends on a lot of things, the make of the car, the color, the age of the paint, the method of polishing (hand, PC, rotary) what polish you are using, a lot of different factors.
Generally whenever you REMOVE anything you are also removing paint, it is true that with a rotary buffer you can polish straight through the paint. That is far farless likely to happen with a PC, and far far far less likely to happen by hand.
I generally stick to once a year, maybe twice and perfect my paint care procedure in between to minimize creation of blemishes I'd have to polish out.
I'm almost to a year now and am planning to do my full detail soon. Proud to say I have only a few straightline marrs and some minor minor cobwebbing down near the base of the car where it gets extra dirty. Shouldn't need more than DACP with a polishing pad and probably only SFP to polish them out.
Kidding lol. Really it depends on a lot of things, the make of the car, the color, the age of the paint, the method of polishing (hand, PC, rotary) what polish you are using, a lot of different factors.
Generally whenever you REMOVE anything you are also removing paint, it is true that with a rotary buffer you can polish straight through the paint. That is far farless likely to happen with a PC, and far far far less likely to happen by hand.
I generally stick to once a year, maybe twice and perfect my paint care procedure in between to minimize creation of blemishes I'd have to polish out.
I'm almost to a year now and am planning to do my full detail soon. Proud to say I have only a few straightline marrs and some minor minor cobwebbing down near the base of the car where it gets extra dirty. Shouldn't need more than DACP with a polishing pad and probably only SFP to polish them out.
Nick Chronis
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The least amount necessary. After you initially get your car to the pristine condition you expect you'll know when it needs it. Weather conditions, is it a daily driver etc will determine that. And again only use the least aggressive polish the job requires. Start from mild and move on up to more aggressive if you're not getting the desired results.